: pull-down
a drop-down menu
drop-down noun
or dropdown
plural drop-downs or dropdowns
… a simpler email experience free of buttons, drop-downs, toggles, … and heavy interfaces … Ellis Hamburger

Examples of drop-down in a Sentence

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Photo : Jeff Brown The Night Lounge The lower-deck night lounge with its starlit ceiling—a replica of the constellations above Rotterdam from the evening of the yacht’s launch—and drop-down TV has a different feel than the rest of the interior. Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2025 Models designed for off-road or power riding often have drop-down handlebars that lower air resistance and improve shock absorption. Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025 In biological collections, the tool Specify allows managers to quickly classify specimens with drop-down menus prepopulated with standards for taxonomy and other parameters to consistently describe the incoming specimens. Bradley Wade Bishop, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025 The personalization feature can be found through Gemini’s model drop-down menu. Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for drop-down

Word History

First Known Use

1984, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of drop-down was in 1984

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“Drop-down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drop-down. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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drop-down

adjective
-ˌdau̇n
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